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Scientists offer personal accounts of the challenges, struggles, successes, U-turns, and satisfactions encountered in their careers in industry, academia, and government. This insightful book offers essential life and career lessons for newly minted STEM graduates and those seeking a career change. Thirty-six leading scientists and engineers (including two Nobel Prize winners) describe the challenges, struggles, successes, satisfactions, and U-turns encountered as they established their careers. Readers learn that there are professional possibilities beyond academia, as contributors describe the paths that took them into private industry and government as well as to college and university ca...
It is twenty years since six-year-old Joshua Horton disappeared from his schoolyard leaving no clues. The kidnapping remains unsolved. His mother is convinced that Joshua is still alive and one day will return to her. Dr. Joshua Benton, raised in London, England by devoted parents, is hired by Harvard as a Scientist and Researcher. Joshua accepts the opportunity to work with the prestigious group in Harvard and moves to Cambridge, Mass. where due to a series of accidental events he finds himself engrossed in unraveling the mystery of the kidnapped Joshua Horton
Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia is the summary of a 2013 conference convened by the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine of the National Research Council to discuss the current status of women of color in academia and explore the challenges and successful initiatives for creating the institutional changes required to increase representation of women of color at all levels of the academic workforce. While the number of women, including minority women, pursuing higher education in science, engineering and medicine has grown, the number of minority women faculty in all institutions of higher education has remained small an...
Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives provides a new, innovative conceptual framework for describing representations of slavery in twenty-first century American cultural productions. Horton draws on broad range of examples including novels like The Known World, films like 12 Years a Slave, and the music of Missy Elliott.
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Join Dr. H and BB as they explore the planets in our Milky Way. Along the way, they land in some sticky situations as they learn exciting facts about the planets and the rest of the universe in this wacky adventure series.